Crowd-Sourced Assessment of Technical Skills for Validation of Basic Laparoscopic Urologic Skills Tasks

摘要

Purpose: The BLUS (Basic Laparoscopic Urologic Skills) consortium sought to address the construct validity of BLUS tasks and the wider problem of accurate, scalable and affordable skill evaluation by investigating the concordance of 2 novel candidate methods with faculty panel scores, those of automated motion metrics and crowdsourcing.